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To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs YOU. :-) 
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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:18:38 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I will be doing somethign like this..

In what timeframe? :-)

> unfortunatly it will probably work best for the SLICE/DEVFS version of
> the system. However I need to do that before devfs can be widely used.
> 
> The present tools can be used
> but it takes a bit too much specialised knowledge.

Tell us more, please.  Perhaps your fancy proposed UI work can be
re-used even with the existing libdisk based interface (e.g. without
DEVFS) if you take care to abstract the data-gathering and display
portions of the code appropriately?

					Jordan